Being Seen in the Fluorescent Fog
A long, spiraling essay about perception, misperception, and the quiet horror of being misunderstood at work, with a few useful truths buried inside.
Read ArticleAs a Software Architecture Lead, I design systems that teams actually want to use. Not architecture that looks impressive in diagrams but falls apart under load, but the kind that makes the right patterns obvious and guides developers toward maintainable solutions.
I focus on building frameworks that scale, making complexity manageable, and ensuring systems still make sense six months later. Before Moxie, I led teams through legacy system redesigns, drastically cut infrastructure costs through better architecture, rewrote critical services for performance, and built real-time collaborative systems at scale.
Good architecture is mostly invisible, it works so well that people forget it exists. That's the goal: systems that feel inevitable because they align with how people actually work.
A long, spiraling essay about perception, misperception, and the quiet horror of being misunderstood at work, with a few useful truths buried inside.
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Read ArticleA reflection on how AI is transforming software engineering by handling routine tasks, allowing developers to focus on higher-level system thinking and architectural decisions.
Read ArticleAn obsessively detailed examination of the recursive anxieties, bureaucratic storytelling, and faintly sacred possibilities of professional advancement in late-stage capitalism, with footnotes.
Read ArticleMore rants about code, systems that actually work, and why your architecture probably doesn't need that abstraction.
Whether it's a technical deep-dive, debating the merits of yet another abstraction, or just geeking out about software - I'm always up for it.